Angus Hep C sufferer spat saliva into officer’s mouth

A Hepatitis C sufferer spat infected saliva into the mouth of a police officer just months after being freed early from jail over a savage bite attack on another officer.

Steven Dunn has been handed a new prison term of more than three years over the latest attack, carried out while he was still on licence for the first attack.

Dunn was given 18 months in prison last November for attacking a police officer while on legal highs in Montrose’s busy High Street, spitting blood, chewing through a leg restraint and biting the cop on the shin, leaving him with a horror bite mark.

The latest incident occurred just three months after Dunn got out of prison for that offence.

On August 9 last year, Dunn attacked two of his friends - punching Stacey Pirie and Roman Patocki before being thrown out of his own house by his girlfriend.

Police attended and found Dunn unstable on his feet in the close of the building.

Fiscal depute Eilidh Robertson told Dundee Sheriff Court Dunn was arrested and handcuffed - and immediately tried to headbutt an officer and kicking him as he was put in a van.